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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has launched a digital banking service in the United States, as Japan's number two lender aims to tap growth in the US consumer banking market, a bank executive said on Wednesday. Sumitomo Mitsui is providing personal loans through a newly created online banking division of Manufacturers Bank, a California state-chartered bank wholly owned by the Japanese group.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), and HCL Technologies Ltd. Anand Rathi Wealth Ltd, Steel Strips Wheels Ltd, 5Paisa Capital Ltd, Hathway Bhawani Cabletel & Datacom Ltd, and National Standard (India) Ltd are some of the non-IT companies that will also be releasing their results. The earnings of Indian IT services companies are probably going to be impacted by the worsening global economics and wage increases.

Washington Examiner writer Tiana Lowe on President Trump's criticism of General Motors over the automaker's decision to close its plant in Lordstown, Ohio and the potential impact of Trump's threat of more auto tariffs.

Shark Tank catapulted businesses forward in valuation with most startups (that appeared on the show) securing deals six times greater in value from outside investors within a span of 1.5 years, highlighted a report by Redseer on Wednesday. Following up on companies that either secured a deal or were rejected on Shark Tank season 1, the Redseer strategy consultants found that 27 startups successfully secured funds from external investors regardless of whether they scored a deal, dropped out, or got rejected on the show.

«Not yet fully convinced on any specific name that we can talk about but not so much the PSUs. Elsewhere in the sector, there are some possibilities of finding an opportunity here,» says Rakshit Ranjan, Marcellus Investment.Let us begin by talking about the defence space itself. We all know the kind of potential it has, the opportunity size etc but do you really think a) it will materialise and b) is it not priced in already? I think the opportunity is good.

TCS, HCL TechShares of TCS and HCL Tech will be in focus as the companies will announce their first quarter earnings today.SpiceJetAviation watchdog DGCA has put SpiceJet under «enhanced surveillance» amid the budget airline facing multiple financial headwinds in recent months, PTI reported, but the carrier refuted any such development.Read more: What changed the market while you were sleepingAdani EnterprisesAdani Enterprises has raised Rs 1,250 crores by allotment of 125,000 secured, unrated, unlisted, redeemable, non-convertible debentures.M&MMahindra and Mahindra reported total sales of Rs 59,924 units for the month of June.

According to industry estimates, about 20,000 luxury vehicles were sold between January and June — a 38% jump over 14,500 units sold in the same period a year ago. Strong consumer demand, especially at the top end of the market, and healthy order books across manufacturers will help sustain momentum through the year and push overall volumes past the pre-pandemic peak of 40,000 units in 2018, senior industry executives told ET. Meanwhile, overall passenger vehicle sales rose by about 10% to over 2 million units in the first half of 2023.

«You can name any number of companies and everybody is today exporting in a very large way. So, yes, I agree and I feel that yes there is a lot of juice left in the sector.

Foxconn has told the government it wants to set up at least four to five semiconductor fabrication lines in India, people aware of the development told ET. Foxconn said it was “working toward submitting an application” under the India Semiconductor Mission in a separate statement on Tuesday.

Few years back, plastic bags were everywhere, from grocery stores to retail businesses, but as they pose significant threat to our beloved mother Earth, a strong movement gained momentum against the uses of plastic bags as they not only take hundreds of years to decompose but also cause harm to wildlife, pollute oceans and landscapes causing long-term damage to our ecosystems.  The movement promoted eco-friendly alternatives to plastic bags. Here comes the eco-friendly Paper Bags manufactured from sustainable materials and are simple to recycle. They provide a green option for carrying and packaging goods.

New Delhi: Federal indirect tax body the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Tuesday exempted integrated GST (IGST) levied on select drugs when imported for personal use, redefined sports utility vehicles to prevent car makers side stepping the highest tax bracket and decided on levying 28% uniform GST on online gaming, horse racing and casinos on the full-face value of bets. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman who also chairs the GST Council said at a briefing that tax rates were brought down on four items--uncooked snack pellets, fish soluble paste, certain yarn and LD slag--a byproduct of steel production that is used in certain industries.

NEW DELHI : The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Tuesday exempted integrated GST on select drugs when imported for personal use, redefined sport utility vehicles (SUVs) to prevent carmakers from side-stepping the highest tax bracket and levied a 28% uniform GST on online gaming, horse racing, and casinos on the full value of the bets. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who chairs the GST Council, said at a briefing that tax rates were cut on four items—uncooked snack pellets, fish soluble paste, certain yarn, and LD slag—a by-product of steel production that is used in certain industries.

Investing.com — Stocks rose on optimism about an inflation report for June that could convince the Federal Reserve to come to the end of its interest rate hikes sooner than later.

Havells India is going to venture into electronic manufacturing service (EMS) or contract manufacturing space for appliances such as air-conditioners and washing machines to cater to the increased demand of global brands to have an Indian manufacturing base, said chairman and managing director Anil Rai Gupta. On a pilot basis, the company has already started manufacturing and product designing of air-conditioners for some of the global brands in markets like the Middle East and the US. Gupta said since Havells is investing heavily into building manufacturing lines and capacities for appliances for its own brand Lloyd, it will utilise the spare capacity for contract manufacturing for brands sold overseas. «We want to cater to China plus-one manufacturing strategy of global brands. We will only manufacture for brands sold overseas since we don't want such products to compete with our own Lloyd brand of appliances. We are also designing the products to ensure they meet the norms of these markets,» said Gupta. Gupta said the company is targeting Rs 1,000 crore revenue from contract manufacturing over the next 3-4 years. He said Havells has started with AC for such manufacturing since it has already built a plant of global standard and has excess capacities. Next will be the washing machine for which it has set up a plant. «As and when we set up plants for manufacturing our own products, we will start contract manufacturing,» he said.

NEW DELHI : Signalling systems along India’s sprawling rail network will turn fully electronic over the next six years as part of a ₹1 trillion plan to avert the kind of errors that led to the Balasore rail tragedy in June, two people aware of the plans said. The mission mode programme will replace the existing electro-mechanical system with solid-state electronic route relay devices and signals to reduce chances of human error and signalling failures, the people said on condition of anonymity.

Supplies are running out for a key antidote for life-threatening lead poisoning. The drug, named dimercaprol, has been a go-to treatment for years for the worst cases of lead poisoning. But doctors have had to scrounge for dwindling doses since the medicine’ssole manufacturer for the U.S.

New Delhi: A day after withdrawing from the $19.5 billion joint venture (JV) with Vedanta, the world’s largest contract manufacturer Foxconn said it remains committed to building India’ssemiconductor ecosystem and will begin afresh with new partners. In a statement Foxconn said it has initiated talks with both Indian as well as global companies for a potential partnership and will resubmit its application to the government under the Modified Programme for Semiconductors and Display Fab Ecosystem policy.

₹16.31 crore, an increase of 53% from the previous year. ITC’s shares rose 1.53% on Tuesday on BSE.

By Katherine Masters

GST Council increasing the cess by 200 basis points from the current 20 per cent to 22 per cent. Under the current GST structure, bigger UVs are levied with GST rate of 28 per cent and cess up to 22 per cent. The hybrid UV has a cess rate of 15 per cent, followed by two cess slabs of 20per cent and 22per cent respectively. With the change in GST rate of bigger UVs (either petrol or diesel) will be levied with the highest cess rate of 22 per cent if a vehicle meets any of the following three specifications—first, unladen (without passenger weight) ground clearance of 170mm-- earlier this condition was on laden basis (with passenger weight), it is now unladen, second length more than 4 meter and lastly, over 1500cc engine capacity. In addition, the condition popularly known as SUV has also been removed. This would mean all bigger SUV/MPV which are attracting 20 per cent cess rate so far will have cess rate of 22 per cent. This would mean SUV/MPV prices are likely to increase by 2per cent. It’s not immediately clear which UV models would attract a higher cess as the specification published in the company’s sale brochure is different from the specification during the vehicle homologation. Homologation is a government issued certificate that allows a product to enter a market. The GST council goes with specification shared by the manufacturer during homologation.

Orchid Pharma, the Chennai-based drug maker on Tuesday said it has entered into a technology transfer agreement with a leading multinational biotechnology company for its fermentation based ‘7ACA project’ under the production linked incentive (PLI) scheme. The company didn't disclose the name of the biotechnology firm or further details of the agreement.